How to install pandoc in CentOs without loosing sanity

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

You can easily install it with Halcyon.
Halcyon can be installed by cloning the Halcyon source repository:

git clone https://github.com/mietek/halcyon
Alternatively, you can run the Halcyon setup script, which also installs the necessary OS packages and sets up the environment:

eval «$( curl -sL https://github.com/mietek/halcyon/raw/master/setup.sh )»

cd /dir/to/installation/of/halcyon/
sudo ./halcyon install cabal –prefix=/dir/where/you/want/to/install/cabal/
locate halcyon-install-3eb4a81-Cabal-1.22.6.0.tar.gz
cd halcyon/
./halcyon –help
./halcyon cabal
sudo ./halcyon install pandoc –prefix=/dir/where/you/want/to/install/pandoc/

That’s it!
Halcyon do the magic!